follow-up: 'Iceman' pleads guilty in credit card theft case

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By Elinor Mills
Security
CNet News
June 29, 2009

Max Ray Vision, aka "Iceman," pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of 
wire fraud stemming from the theft of nearly 2 million credit card numbers 
and $86 million in alleged fraudulent purchases.

Vision faces up to 60 years in prison when he is sentenced in October in 
federal court in Pittsburgh, according to federal public defender Michael 
Novara.

Vision was arrested in September 2007 and accused of operating an 
underground forum called "Carders Market" where cybercriminals bought and 
sold stolen credit card numbers and other data. He was targeted as part of 
a sting operation in which FBI agent J. Keith Mularski spent two years 
undercover infiltrating a group of cyberscammers who bought and sold 
stolen credit card numbers on a rival site called "Dark Market."

In an interview with CNET News in May, Mularski talked about Vision, whose 
last name used to be Butler:

     There are a lot of guys who I think their curiosity just got the
     best of them and it led them down a dark path. One of the guys, Max
     Butler, who ran our rival site called Carders Market and used the
     hacker name "Iceman," was arrested in San Francisco. He was very
     intelligent. He could have been an excellent security expert.

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